WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 2004
Find out what all happened March to May 2004

Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed. (17. March 2004)

The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. (24. April 2004)

Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. (6. April 2004)

A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. (8. March 2004)

Yelwa massacre: more than 630 nomad Muslims are killed by Christians in Nigeria. (2. May 2004)

Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. (11. March 2004)

Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160. (21. April 2004)

HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. (27. March 2004)

The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants. (29. March 2004)

The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. (17. May 2004)

The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. (14. May 2004)

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin. (1. May 2004)

The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. (28. May 2004)

Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. (29. April 2004)

The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (29. May 2004)

A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations. (19. March 2004)

The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013. (22. May 2004)

Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. (3. April 2004)

Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. (22. April 2004)

3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. (19. March 2004)